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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-02
Sl.OO WORTH i $500. .o0

For four years / have been n sufferer
from q terrible form of rheumatism,
which reduced mo 50 low that all hope
of recovery wGs given up. L have suffer
ed the most excruciating pain day and
night, and often while writhing in agony
have wished could die. L have tried
everything known for that disease, but
nothing did me any good, and have had
some of the finest physicians of the
State to work on mo, but all to no effect.
I have spent over $500 without finding
relief. L am now proud to say that after
using only one bottle of B. Is. b. ara
enabled to walk around and attend to
business, and [ would not take $500 for
the benefit received from ono single bot
tie of L, b. b. [ refer to all merchants
and business men of this town. Yours,
most truly, e. Q. CARA.
Waverly, Walker county, Texas.
Demonstrated vi crit.
SPARTA, GA, May Is, 1886.
BLOOD BALM Co: You will please ship
lis per first freight one gross j. B. b.
1t gives us pleasure to report good
trade for this preparation. Indeed it has
far cclipsed oil other blood remedies,
both i'll demonstrated merit and rapid
sale with us. RozIER n VAnDEN1AN.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-02
InVaIids' Hotel and Surgical institute

Stan or Eighteen Experienced and slkills
Tul Physicians ana Surgeons.
ALL CHRONIC DISEASES a SPECIALITY
Patients treated hero or at their homes. Many
successfully as IL here In person. Come and
SEQ u.s., or send ton cents in stamps for our
invalids' Guide.6ook," which gives all partic-
ulars Address: WORLDS DISPENsARY MEDI-
CAL ASSOCIATION, G03 Main St, Buffalo, Ny.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03

An English military officer has made
some radical changes in the construction
of saddle which are highly spoken of.
The "treen is so altered as to allow the
open space to be webbod, making a
yielding seat, so that the falling of the
rider is not likely to occur any more on
this saddle than on an Office stool. 1t is
in the hanging Of the stirrup, however,
that the greatest improvement consists.
Instead of dangling at the end of one
vertical strap the safety saddle stirrup is
suspended by two straps-one from the
cantle and one from the pommel. The
rigidity of this suspension, compared to
the swinging motion of the ordinary
stirrup hanging, only needs trial to
make the rider exclaim; "Why was this
not thought of before9"
With this double suspension the open
front of the stirrup is always to the for.
ward thrust of the horsemans foot-G
serviceable position with a skittish ol
fidgety horse after dark when mounting,
the right foot having always to kick at Tho
dangling stirrup iron till it is turned so u,
to get the foot into it, Chicago Nc,cs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
Cleanliness in Holland.

Dutch cleanliness is famous, and de.
serves its fame. The Dutch are the only
people who live as if cleanliness were not
next to, but part of, godliness. The trav-
clcr on entering his room in an inn, finds
the linen snow-white, the window-panes
transparent as the air, the furniture shin.
ing as If newly vanished, and the floor
so clean that a magnifying glass could
not discover a speck thereon. There is
a basket for waste-paper, tablet for
scratching matches on, a dish for cigar
ashes, box for cigar stumps a spittoon
every man is supposed to smoke-a
boot jack, and everything to remove q
prctext for soiling anything. Even his
candlestick is of copper, and of the size
of dinner-plate. 1t might sustain a
torch, but holds instead q candle as
large as a lady's small finger. No grease
should be split from that candlestick.
The traveller stands on bridge, and
overlooks the vessels crowded in the
canal. Each one is as clean as the room
he has Just left. The mast and the
deck are vanished, and shine like re-
Gently scrubbed house-hoor. The cabin
has its windows Of clear, clean glass,
NtOll Oht WIN It's Nllllt llhSllh AAAi AdliAo
tied up with knots of rose -colored rib
bon. The sailors, women, and children
are busy, every spare momeut, washing,
sweeping, polishing every part.
De AmiCis, an Italian. on visiting the
kitchen of house in Delft, could find
but one word to express his feelings
"Splendid" The walls were as white as
untouched snow; the saucepans reflected
like mirrors, and the mantlepiecc was or.
namented with muslin curtain, like the
canopy of bed. The fireplace was COW
cred with china tiles that looked as bright
as if no fire had ever been lighted there.
The shovcls, tongs, and poker, and the
chains and hooks seemed made of polished
steel.
"a lady in ball-dress might have
gone into every hole and corner of that
kitchen, and come forth without a smirch
upon her whiteness.
The master of the house, seeing the
/ Italians surprise at the fact that ser.
vant-girl was cleaning up, where there
/ seemed not the shadow of dirt, said sc
/ have an idea of what cleanliness is with
us, you should watch one of these women
/ for an hour. There a house is soaped and
sponged and rubbed like a person. 1t i!
not cleaning, it is making a toilette. She
/ blows in the cracks between the bricks
/ pokes in the corners with finger and pin,
makes minute supervision enough tC
/ fatigue the eye as well as the arm. 1t il
truly national passion"
When asked wherce arose this mania
for cleaning, he answered. 1T is due tC
the atmosphere, which Injuries wood an6
metal; to the dampness and smallness Of
the houses, and the multiplicity of small
objects favoring dust; to the superabun
dance of water; to the need of the eye
which finds beauty in simple cleanliness
and, finally, to the emulation which
pushes things to extremes
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03

rubbed on the skin of the heads and
necks. The fowl should then be held
by the legs, head downward and thor
oughly busted with Persian insect power.
The quarters must also be kept very
clean. Once n week is not too often to
give such attention to hens in the sum
mer. Go into the hen house at night
and force few drops of warm lard in
among the feathers of the head and neck
with a sewing machine oil can.
To prevent disease, keep the hens at
work by making them scratch for their
grain food. Overlooking is the cause of
bowel diseases in the summer, or rather,
too much concentrated food is given, and
not enough of bulky. If the quarters
are kept clean, there is little danger
of contagious diseases unless an adj
dition is made to the flock by bringing
bird from some other farm. When
new blood is wanted procure a sitting
of eggs of the breed desired, as it is very
important that when the coops are clean
and the fowls free from disease, no fowls
from other places be introduced. A
flock may thus be stocked with lice, or
infected with disease. Agricul-
turist
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
WISE WORDS.

God keeps his people from trouble by
saving them from sin.
Sorrow is the only one Of the lower
notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
One of the greatest blessings you can
enjoy, is q tender, honest and enlightened
conscience.
1t is not only arrogant, but it is profit
gate for man to disregard the worlds
opinion of himself
Live by the day; you will have daily
trials, and strength accordingly; leave
tomorrow to the Lord
In certain souls, more naughty than
tender, pardon is a polite form, q sort oil
euphemism of contempt.
There is a Gaelic proverb: ''If the best
mans faults were written on his forehead,
it would make him pull his hat over his
eyes,
1t is a great and noble thing to cover
the blemishes and to excuse the failings
of friend; to draw a curtain before his
stains, and to display his perfcctions; TO
bury his weakness in silence, but to pro
claim his virtues upon the housetop.
What is with the treasure must fare as
the treasure; the heart which hsunts the
treasure house where the moth and rust
corrupt, will itself be rusted and moth
eaten. Many man, many woman, faii
and flourishing to sec, is going about
with a rusty, moth eaten heart.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
Manure md Mccd.sceds.

Henry Ives says in the New York Tri-
bupc:' 1t is very practicable for farmers
who live near city or village to furnish
citizens with hay, straw, oats and the
like, and then draw back TO their farms
at least fertility enough to produce as
much more, and thus sustain their soil.
But some will not avail themselves of this
resource, for fear of introducing weeds
or foul grasses to their fields. 1t is COM
mendable for every husbandman TO be
certain as to the purity of the seed he
uses, and to use every means TO avoid all
foul growth, still this method of in
creasing his supply of manure does not
necessarily involve any risk to the farmer,
SO far as such foul seed is concerned, for
by thoroughly rotting the manure, the
germs of grain or seeds in it will be de-
stroyed. The plan of making the ma
nure fine before applying it to the land, l
think will fully pay for the labor. How
ever, as for myself, since learning by ex-
perience how effectually good tillage will
insure clean culture on any land regard
less of its past management, and also the
increased producing value of short ma
nure, and its greater strength before this
fermenting and rotting than afterward,
for years ran all the hay, straw and
stalks used for both feeding and bedding,
through the cutting machine and applied
the raw manure directly to the land.
As for weeds, so long as it is ordained
that ''thorns and thistlcsn shall infest the
ground, we will be quite sure to have
some to contend with any way; and with
all hoed crops the tilling for subduing
one weed to the square foot would kill a
hundred just the same; or, as prefer to
put it, the tillage required for the best
development of the plant we are tilling
will necessarily check all other growth,
whether it be ten or ten thousand weeds
to each hill titled. In using my barn
yard manure in this way l was satisfied
that it could be handled and applied
enough easier and better to more than
pay for the labor of cutting the fodder,
saying nothing of its advantages for
feeding. But although it was more
agreeable to use, and seemed to do more
good, still did not hesitate to buy and
use what could get readily, asking no
questions as to what it was made from,
and only fearing l could not get enough.
One good argument in favor of buyin 9
stable manure for the farm is that we see
many of our best farmers doing it, and
their farms are quite as clean and free of
weeds as their neighbors' who only use
from their own barnyards: and those who
buy and use the most seem to take the
least heed as to whether they might thus
bring in unwelcome weeds.-Henry Ices.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
Whento Cut HAY.

When to cut hay is a matter upon
which there is much diversity of opinion.
If hay is cut for sale that which is cut
late, especially timothy, will bring a
better price and weigh more than the
carly cut crop. The present year this
will be an important matter, for the crop
of hay viii be light. Chemists, and
those who follow the lead of the
theoretical farmers, believe that grass
and clover in an early stage of growth
contains more nutriment than when cut
after blossoming There is no doubt Of
it; but the aggregate nutriment con-
tained in late crop is greater, beyond
question, than that in the early cut hay.
If one could depend upon favorable,
weather after cutting the first crop so as
to secure a second one as large, or nearly
SO, as the first one, there would he no
doubt of the advantage of cutting the
hay as carly as in the first blooming of
the clover and as soon as the heads of the
grasses appear.-Ne,o York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
The Age Rings in Trees.

Every day some pet theory, long held
and honestly venerated, is being demol-
ished and sent to the limbo of myth
with Tells apple, Washington's cherry
tree and other old acquaintances, now
demonstrated to be myths. Now the
rge-rings in trees has to suffer limboniza-
ion, if that word may be allowed Mr..
II. w. Furras, al agent of the United
States Forestry Department, who has
given mnch attention to the age of trees
rs indicated by rings as well as to the
period at which trees of different specisc
stop growing and that at which the wood
is at its best, has reached some conclu-
ions of general interest. lie says:
"Concentric or annual rings, which
were once accepted as good legal evil
dence, fail, except where climate, soil,
temperature, humidity and all other sur
roundings are regular and we'll balanced.
Otherwise they are mere guess work.
The only regions within my knowledge
where either rings or measurements were
reliable indications are in the secluded,
even and regularly tempered valleys of
the Southern Pacific coast"
Annual measurements of white elm,
catalpa, soft maple, sycamore, pig hick-
ory, cottonwood, chestnut, box elder,
honey locust, coffee tree, burr and white
oak, black walnut, Usage orange, white
pine, red cedar, mulberry and yellow will
low, nineteen species, made in Southeast
ern Nebraska show that annual growth
is very irregular, sometimes scarcely per-
ceptible and again quite large" and this
he attributes to the difference in seasons.
As trees increase in age, inner rings de-
crease in size, sometimes almost disap-
pearing. Diminished rate of growth after
a certain age is the rule. OF four great
beeches mentioned by Loudon, there were
three, each about II feet in girth, whose
ages were respectively go, 102 and 200
years. Mr.. Furras found 12 rings in a
black locust years old, 81 rings in d
shell-bark hickory of ~ years, 10 rings
in pig hickory of 6 years, IL rings in a
wild crab apple of 5 years, and only %
rings in a chestnut oak of "a years. Al
I American chestnut Of only four years had
8 rings, while a peach of s years had
| only five rings. World
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
No F's nor KS.

The following announcement, printed
in the Rocky Mountain Cyclone, show,
how completely the English language i
adapted for sudden and Unforeseen emer
gencies: I'VE begin the publication o.
the Roccay Mountain CyctoHe with somt
phew diphphiculties. The type phoun.
ders phrom whom we bought our out.
phit, phailed to supply us with any ephs
and Gays, and it will be phour or phive
week bephore we can get any. The mis-
taque was not phound out till day or
two ago. We have ordered the missing
letters, and will have to get along with
out them till they come. We dout
lique the look ov this variety ov spelling
any better than our readers, but mis-
taques will happen in the best regulated
phamilies, and iph the p's, his, KS and
as hold out, We shall ceep Sound the c
hard) the Cyclone whirling, aphter a
phashion, till the sorts arrive. 1t is nc
joque to us-it is a serious aphphair."
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
The Pistol in Mexico.

Almost any Mexican would as leave
90 outdoors without his coat as without
his pistol. He wears it to church, to
the opera, to see his best girl--in short,
wherever he goes you may see a glisten-
ing bit of nickel-plated steel sticking
out from under his coat taft. Every day
when my teacher Of Spanish "a swarthy
young man in jacket of yellow kid and
pointed -toed boots with enormously high
heels) comes to give me the customary
lesson he is obliged to unbuckle his belt
and deposit big revolver upon my table
before he can sit down to business. -
Mericdn Letter.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
FARM AND GARDEN.


The least troublesome way to teach
a young calf to cat hay, a Massachusetts
farmer says, is to tie some hay in little
bundle and hang it up where the calf can
just reach it, The calf is curious Great
ure and will begin nosing the hay about,
then it will nibble it a little and finally
soon get to eating it. 1t will quickly
learn TO cat dry bran if little is put
in its mouth occasionally. Care should
be taken in feeding grain that it is not
eaten too fast. Oats crushed or ground,
is the safest grain for young calves. To
feed milk alone without any coarse food
for several months is not judicious. The
stomach is not sufficiently distended and
the animal is likely to grow to a light
bellied, poor feeder. If calf is TO be
quickly fattened, it should be penned in
comfortable, clean, well-ventilated
stable, which should be kept quite dark,
and the calf should be kept as quiet as
possible.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
Whore TO Rnisc Rcd-Ton.

Red-top, Agrostis vulgaris, is fire.
quently recommended by agricultural
writers of wide reputc. Many expert
enced and critical farmers and stock
growers put it among the most valuable
grasses. Yet it is not grass to be recon-
mended without reservation. Its char
acteristics vary much in different locali-
ties. On some moist soils it is excellent !;
for Others it cannot be recommended.
Cattle will hunt out and crop close every
other grass before they will cat it after it
has become hard and wiry; and cattle in
good condition put upon dry red-top
pasture will lose in flesh. The aversion
of the cattle increases as the grass grows
older. 1t is nutritious, but harsh and un-
palatable. While red-top takes on these
bad qualities in comparatively few To-
calities, the experience of some should
warn the farmer who has not grown the
grass on his own farm, TO proceed cau-
tiously in introducing it. The form it
assumes in unfavorable localities, should
be borne in mind when speaking of this
grass generally.-American Agriculturist.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
Scott and the Lieutenant.

In one of the great battles of the
Mexican war Lieutenant George ii.
Derby was wounded, and the Command
erin Chief, being near, rode up TO the
group surrounding him, and, finding that
the injury was not dangerous, started
away with the parting salutation:
"Good-day, Leftenant Darby"
"Good-day, General Scutt, responded
the party addressed sufficiently loud for
his retiring superior to hear.
"Thc Generals name is not Scatt, v
said one of the group.
"Nol" was the response. "and neither
is my name Darby. San Francisco Er.
dminer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
The Handwriting of Poets.

"The old idea that nearly all great
literary gcniuses, especially poets, wrote
poor hands, has been exploded thorough
ly," said an expert penman to a New
York Mail and Express reporter. He
meditated few minutes and proceeded
in the same strain: "To illustrate: Edgar
Allan Poe wrote a fine hand. 1t was
rather small, but legiblc as print. He
never scrawled, however fast he wrote.
His life was checkered enough to upset
his nerves, but through it all he wrote
fair, smooth, round hand Richard
Henry Stoddard. the white haired poet,
perhaps wrote the most beautiful hand of
any of the American poets up to several
years ago. 1t was somwhat like the Spen-
cerian system of to-day. The letters were
well formed and even, and properly
shaded. Even now, well advanced in
years, he writes fine copy hand as easy
TO read as print. Some of his best poems
are written in hand of such neatness
and legibility as would put the type
writer to the blush. Mr.. Stoddard
handles pen with wonderful celebrity
yet. William Cullen Bryant also wrote
Il good hand. 1t was not as beautiful
even as Mr.. Stoddard's, but as fair and
legible as the most hypercritical could
desire. Mr.. Bryant's handwriting has
been much discussed. He wrote a better
hand than Poe, though the latter was bet
ter at certain times than at others.
John G. Whittier is master of fine,
plain hand that the printers bless. 1t is
as simple, small and unassuming as he is,
and can be read easily. John Howard
Payne, author of "Home Sweet Home, -
could well have passed for an instructor
in penmanship, his handwriting was 50
admirable. II was somewhat too small,
if anything, but all the letters were formed
with startling accuracy,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
Amos Keeter.

There's a lively little creeter which is known
as Amos Keeter and it couldn't be
much fieeter it tried;
1t is ever sweetly singing while about you,
swiftly winging, seeking out a place
for singing through your hide
In gore It's ever wadin', lanced from grandaIn
and from Maiden till its veins ara
overladen with the stun,
And yet, though rich its diet the small
CTeeter ne'er is quiet, and you really
can't come nigh (which is tuff;
You think you're sure to lam it, and agains
the wall you jam it, but you'll sadly
mutter "blame it, as it skips;
Oh, smart is Amos Keeter, ON your very noss
he'll teeter, and he says "this my meat
err as he nips.
Confound the wretched creature, he swels
your every feature, and he bleeds you
like leech or dineth off your face
Oh, il he sang in Eden, no stronger proof I'm
needin' of the cause Of the secedin' froH
the place.
--ClevsEaHd Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
The Number Sixty in China.

The Chinese hold the number sixty in
especial veneration, and the sixteth
birthday of every member of a family is
always celebrated with elaborate festivi-
ties. Sixty years also complete a revolu-
ton of the Chinese cycle, that CORE
spends to, in their division Of time, with
our century. This system came probably
from Babylon, where sixty was the
sacred number, and whence we get the
divisions of our hours and minutes
Like us, the Chinese retain the Babylo-
nian day, Of twelve hours, but they
reckon the hours of light and darkness
only as six hours each.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
Swine as Grass Renewers.

Few farmers know how much is lost to
the farm by keeping the swine confined
all summer in styes or yards. When this
is done money is virtually being thrown
away. There are more points than one.
1t costs twice as much to keep the hogs
as it would if they were in pasture lot.
This is reason enough why the sty and
yard system should be avoided The hogs
will never make as good meat. There
Will be more lean in proportion to the
fat when they run in a pasture. This is
because the grass they eat is a perfectly
balanced food, and then they exercise
more, which tends to develop the muscle.
The air is purer and this makes purer
blood, and any novice should know that
the better the blood the better the body.
SFffese are the benefits to the hog: but
= sy 1and>-is-an mportaae-item and the
benefits to it are more marked than the
pasturing of any other animals. The
greenest fields in the early spring and
those with the largest growth of grass
are the fields in which the swine have
been pastured the year before. Two
seasons of pasturing will enrich almost
any field and fit it for good crop. The
place to rear hogs and to fatten them is
in the field. Here none of their valuable
excrement will be lost, and the ready
earth will absorb it completely. The ma
Bure-e+ swine seems to find its way into
the ground or to become Incorporated
with it much more rapidly than that of
any other animal, When fed grain, other
than corn, it is worth pound for pound
more than the average commercial fertil-
izer
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03
A Gander,s MaternaI Onallties.

Mrs John Chandler, who lives about
six miles east of Marietta, set a goose in
the spring. The goose set on the eggs
about a week and died on the nest. She
was taken off the nest and a gander,
mate of the goose, took her place on the
nest and set three weeks, when the eggs
hatched, six in number. He cares for
the little orphans just like a mother
goose, covers them at night, and during
ne day leads them where the grass is ths
'.rcGnest. - Walton (Gd.l Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03

1t is an impressive truth that sometimes
in the very lowest forms of duty, less
than which would rank man as a viii
lain, there is, nevertheless, the sub
liment ascent of self-sacrifice De Quincy.